Just what we need! A new law!

They are a company that spends money to do things I hate, therefore I don't give them money. I suggest you also 'vote with your wallet'.

Everyone knows it's not the violent video games, it's that evil Jazz music corrupting our youth!

Man, putting things in folders inside of filing cabinets is such a pain in the ass. Why can't we just spread them all over the room in piles?

The home ribbon displays more than 40 buttons, and if the average person uses *maybe* a dozen of those. Why do you want buttons on the screen all the time that you never use?

You prefer boxes with symbols instead of an alphabetical list?

Lets see, number of menu options in Word 2003 top menu:
File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Table, Window, Help

Number of tabs to open new ribbons in Office 2013:
File, Home, Insert, Page Layout, References, Mailings, Review, View. Of course there is still the Help button cleverly hidden in the upper right corner.
How is this helping again? Oh, right! The tools we commonly use are on the 'Home' ribbon... where more than half of the UI is taken up by 'Styles'

The ribbon is not only one of the shitty things Microsoft has made, it's easily in the top 5 along with the Windows Registry, and Clippy.

Which program would you rather run on your network? One with code that got corrupted at random, or one that had a change made by software developers?

I think we worry too much about the folly of man. We interact with nature all the time. We've created new organisms by breeding, moved them out of their natural habitat into other areas without any thought of consequences, and things are mostly fine. There are a lot of rabbits in Australia, and a lot of pythons in Florida, sure, but we have done an awful lot of good by tinkering with nature and our food supply. Now that we have a better understanding of genetics, why panic when applying it?

Seems to me they could have cleared up any communication issue with the very device the customer was buying.

The PS/2 connector predates NeXT computers by a year, according to Wikipedia.

You missed the part where I said 'automated'.

Imagine a whitelist that checks with a central repository that reputable software manufacturers send their updates to. Even with updates, checking the software you regularly run is now a simpler problem then comparing everything you run to a list of all the malware in existence.

Malware continues to be successful despite our current efforts. Why do we continue to use the same failed security model? Automated white listing seems like a better answer to modern security problems.

The Cybertool series from Victorinox has been a great addition to my kit for years. Sometimes it does better than dedicated tools. Model 29 is small an light enough to have in your pocket for daily use. Much lighter than the Leatherman, it is more tuned for tech use than outdoors.

http://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-Swiss-Cybertool-Pocket-Knife/dp/B00005ML8H/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354234788&sr=8-1&keywords=cybertool+29

Secure in our papers and effects. When written, this included all private communications. Simply because we use electrons instead of ink and paper doesn't mean we lose the protection of the 4th amendment.

Less than one third his age.

No scientist claims to always be right. This core tenet is what makes science superior to religion.

Cuckoo's Egg is good computer fiction you might enjoy.

For non-preachy hard sci-fi Charles Stress has some post singularity books that are pretty great.